Research
Research
“Fictionality Markers in Professional Scientific Articles: A New Approach to Hedging” in English for Specific Purposes Today, volume 10, no. 2, 2022. pp. 245-262. https://www.esptodayjournal.org/pdf/june_2022/3_Olga_A_Limnios.pdf
“Citizen Scholars and Digital Humanities.” Academia Letters, July 2021, Article 2063. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2063
“Definitions of Scientific Terminology in Popular Science Books: An Examination of Definitional Chains.” Science Communication, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547019861397
“The Fictionalized Reader in Popular Science: Reader Engagement with the Scientific Community.” Text & Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies, volume 38, no. 6, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2018-0022
“Active Learning for an Online Composition Classroom: Blogging As an Enhancement of Online Curriculum.” Journal of Educational Technology Systems, vol. 47, no. 2, 2018. pp. 213-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047239518788278
“Presented Discourse in Popular Science Narratives of Discovery: Communicative Side of Thought Presentation.” Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, vol.17, 2018. pp. 7-28
https://doi:10.22381/LPI1720181
“Popular Science and Lab Lit: Differently Depicting Scientific Apparatus.” Science as Culture, vol.26, no. 3, 2017. pp. 285-306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2016.1255722
“Structural Complexity of Popular Science Narratives of Discovery as an Indicator of Reader Awareness: A Labov-Inspired Approach.” Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations vol.16, 2017. pp 7-28
https://doi:10.22381/LPI1620171
“The Sound of Music: Literary Tradition behind the Adaptation.” Study Guide, Utah Shakespeare
Festival, 2022 https://www.bard.org/study-guides/the-sound-of-music-study-guide/
“Gender and Language in Othello.” Midsummer Magazine, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2018
“Speaking Runyonese: The Language of Damon Runyon.” Midsummer Magazine, Utah Shakespeare
Festival, 2017
“Falstaff: The Voice of Reason.” Midsummer Magazine, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2014
“King John: Mothers and Sons.” Midsummer Magazine, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2013
“Atticus Finch: A Hero beyond the Pages of To Kill a Mockingbird.” Midsummer Magazine, Utah
Shakespeare Festival, 2012
Female Language in Popular Science
Fewer women than men are involved in STEM fields and one of the reasons might be a lack of exposure to familiar linguistic structures in reading materials designed to spark interest and to recruit new scientists. Popular science as a multifaceted genre creates an accessible kind of exposure to the scientific world than can potentially lead to a career in that field. Considering this potential of the genre and keeping in mind that most popular science is written by men, the present study examined fifteen articles (five written by men, five by women, and five co-written by both genders) for the presence of female language. Female language was differentiated from gendered language (which is tied to female stereotypes) and identified based on the frequency of certain linguistic markers found in texts produced by women. The results demonstrate that women and teams of authors that include women write differently than men do, thus confirming previous investigations into differences in linguistic production between men and women. The study suggests that exposing young women considering a career in science to popular science written by females might be beneficial in cementing their aspirations as language has a strong connection to self-perceived gender identity.